In addition to the external sales of EXO's concert tickets, some of them are also used as internal gift tickets. In addition to the managers of various departments of the company, each member of EXO has been allocated some to give to some of their insiders or amateurs.
Friends are also a small benefit.
In addition to giving away tickets, the concert company on the first day also prepared the best rows of seats in the infield, and specially invited the parents and relatives of all twelve members to attend, so that they could see their children and relatives up close.
It is also a very meaningful thing for the brothers to have their first solo concert after their debut and watch them reach a brilliant peak of their career.
Chi Jingyuan's parents in the United States will definitely not be able to come. The eldest sister has also gone there recently to do some work and will definitely not be free. As for the second brother Chi Jingxu, he doesn't know if he will come.
According to the narrow-minded character of the second brother, he should come over to watch his younger brother's excitement, but to be honest, Chi Jingyuan didn't really want him to be there. He felt a little awkward performing in front of his relatives.
As for the complimentary tickets given to him by the company, he also kept them. He had a few close relatives and relatives, but he was too lazy to take the initiative to send tickets or anything like that.
However, if a friend asks for it, Chi Jingyuan will naturally be willing to give it. It is not a very precious thing. If others are willing to support it, it is to support them and to give them face.
"Which date do you want, and how many do you want?"
After drinking the water, Chi Jingyuan did not sit back where he was. Instead, he walked out of the practice room, closed the door and leaned against the wall next to him.
"Of course it's on the 23rd. The first concert is definitely the most meaningful and the most beautiful."
Zhou Ziyu replied without hesitation, then bluntly, her voice became softer: "I want one...two...three."
Her tone became weaker and weaker, sounding a little embarrassed. Chi Jingyuan Music could also hear other voices next to her on the phone, as if someone was directing her.
"Okay... let's do it tomorrow. Come to our company at noon tomorrow and call me when you get there."
Chi Jingyuan thought for a while and made an appointment: "You don't know how to get to SM, right? It's very close to JYP, you can just turn a few corners."
"Of course I know. I also went to the entrance of your company with my friends..."
Zhou Ziyu felt that she was being underestimated, and quickly retorted to show that she was already familiar with the nearby road conditions, and then responded happily: "I will go there after school tomorrow, but it may be a little later."
"Then just say it, bye."
"Bye, see you tomorrow."
Before hanging up the phone, Chi Jingyuan heard a female voice screaming from the other side, as if she was saying something like 'so awesome'.
Then the call was hung up. Chi Jingyuan looked at the screen, smiled, shook his head, and walked back to the practice room.
…………
During the lunch break, Chi Jingyuan walked out of the company's side door wearing a gray sweatshirt suit, sneakers, a Gengar hat, black-rimmed glasses and a mask, and walked out of the company's side door with a shoulder bag slung across his shoulder.
After leaving the door, I walked towards the south, turned a few corners and passed through an apartment complex before arriving at the appointed place.
After passing an intersection, he saw Zhou Ziyu standing next to the street sign from a distance. She was standing there with her head lowered and looking at the ground while gently rubbing her feet. Her long black hair was hanging down.
Her hair covers half of her face, exposing the bridge of her nose and eyebrows. When the wind blows, her long hair flutters, making her whole face look a bit blurry.
As if sensing Chi Jingyuan's gaze, Zhou Ziyu raised his head and looked over. When he saw his figure, he blinked and immediately recognized Chi Jingyuan in full disguise. He grinned suddenly and vigorously
He waved his hand to this side.
Chi Jingyuan also smiled and quickened his pace.
From a distance, I have to say that this child's manners are quite good. There is no one to supervise him. He stands with his legs straight and his body upright. He has no hunchback or other problems at all. It can be seen that he has good habits.
After walking in, Chi Jingyuan glanced up and down. Zhou Ziyu seemed to have just returned from school and had not gone to the company to change clothes. She was wearing a blue school uniform jacket, a pair of white sneakers, and a black
With a small schoolbag and a complete student attire, the short, round and completely bare face looks even more childish.
It’s just this skin color…
"Has your mother been cheated on?"
When he walked up to her, Chi Jingyuan looked at her and looked at her smiling face, and spoke without saying hello.
"Ah? Why was my mother deceived?"
Zhou Ziyu, who was originally thinking about how to say hello, was a little confused by this question and opened her mouth slightly.
"Facial mask."
Chi Jingyuan tapped her chin and gave her a hint.
"..." Zhou Ziyu took two seconds to react, and his face suddenly turned bitter. The original joy of seeing Chi Jingyuan disappeared immediately, and he only felt a suffocation erupting from his chest.
"It's annoying..."
She hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but directly raised her foot to rub Chi Jingyuan's calf, then stretched out her hands to cover half of her face, only revealing her big eyes and frowning at him.
"You said it yourself before. Before I came here, I was quite looking forward to seeing any changes in you. I spent a long time doing this..."
Chi Jingyuan looked very innocent and shook his head in disappointment.
"you really……"
Zhou Ziyu was infuriated by his rogue appearance as a victim. He wanted to scold him, but after organizing the language for a long time, he found that there were no suitable words in the vocabulary. After holding himself in for a long time, he couldn't help but increase his volume: "I again
I’m not lying, it’s actually easy to use. And even if the mask is effective, the effect won’t be felt within a day or two.”
After trying her best to explain, she finally emphasized: "And I'm not dark at all. My friends around me say I have very good skin, but you keep saying it every day..."
"very good."
Seeing that Zhou Ziyu was a little aggrieved, Chi Jingyuan stopped teasing her. He took out the concert ticket from his shoulder bag and handed it to her, nodding in agreement, "It's very good, very good."
Seeing Chi Jingyuan's perfunctory look, Zhou Ziyu wrinkled her nose and couldn't help it. Moreover, she was almost used to it after being told so many times. After giving him a look, she stopped covering her face and reached out to take it.
Got the vote.
But after taking it, her hand still stayed there, and she didn't take it back directly. Her expression seemed a little embarrassed that she was taking it for nothing.
"Okay, it's not a very valuable thing."
Chi Jingyuan saw her appearance, laughed and waved casually,
"Next time you have time, treat me to a meal as a reward...just the stinky tofu you mentioned last time."
"good!"
Zhou Ziyu glanced at him, responded with a smile, and then put the ticket into his schoolbag.
"Have you got a meal yet?"
Watching her put the tickets away, Chi Jingyuan glanced around.
He had already eaten before, so I asked him politely.
"I already ate it at school."
"Come to our place... Let's buy you a drink. There is a pretty good shop next to it. Our members often buy drinks here."
Chi Jingyuan waved and then walked to a nearby beverage shop with a good reputation among EXO.
Zhou Ziyu put her schoolbag back on her back, held the straps of her schoolbag with both hands, and followed him obediently. At the same time, she looked at him curiously and asked:
"Do you often come here to buy?"
"I haven't been here much."
"Then how do you drink?"
"Are you stupid?" Chi Jingyuan turned around and looked at her the same way he looked at Wu Shixun: "I'll find someone to take care of me..."
"Uh...hehehe." The other party glanced at him as if he was mentally retarded. Zhou Ziyu smiled at him with some embarrassment. Seeing the other party shake his head, he turned around and walked away quickly, then trotted away.
Go up.
"What to drink?" Standing in front of this beverage shop called 'Brigde', Chi Jingyuan looked at the dazzling illustrations of beverages on the sign at the door and asked Zhou Ziyu beside him.
There happened to be no queue at this time, only one or two customers here and there.
"I can do either." Zhou Ziyu looked at the menu for a while, then raised his head and said.
"Then let's have red bean milk tea." Chi Jingyuan nodded, took out the card from his bag and prepared to order at the counter. As soon as he took a step forward, a weak voice came from behind.
"Well, I don't like eating red beans very much..." Zhou Ziyu looked at him timidly.
"Tzuyu Xi, what do you mean by 'anything goes'?" Chi Jingyuan smiled angrily, turned around and looked at her wonderfully.
"Hehe..." Zhou Ziyu tried his best to smile and lowered his neck.
"You're smiling so ugly...what are you drinking?"
"…………Just like you."
"Then lemon tea...large cup? Half sugar? OK." Chi Jingyuan breathed out, and after confirming, he went to the counter to order. After a while, he came over with two cups of lemon tea and handed it to
Zhou Ziyu had a drink, and the two of them walked away while tying their straws.
When he reached the intersection of an alley and stopped, Chi Jingyuan stuffed the straw into his mask and bit into it. He took two pleasant sips. The sweet and sour taste seemed to dispel some of his fatigue.
Glancing at Zhou Ziyu next to him, he was about to leave. EXO would start working in the afternoon soon, and Zhou Ziyu would definitely have to go to the company to practice.
At this moment, a man and a woman walked over from the corner not far away. As soon as the man showed his head, he saw Chi Jingyuan. After observing it for two seconds, he speeded up and walked over, patting Chi Jingyuan's shoulder familiarly.
He said aloud: "Jingyuan?"
"Brother Chanyeol?" Although the other party was also wearing a mask and hat, Chi Jingyuan recognized him at a glance as his teammate Park Chanyeol, and then took out his habit and said hello with a smile.
Park Chanyeol disappeared as soon as it was time for rest. I didn't expect to meet him here now. What a coincidence.
"Jingyuan, are you here to buy a drink too?" Park Chanyeol looked at the cup in Chi Jingyuan's hand and laughed cheerfully. He seemed to be in a good mood.
"Inside." Chi Jingyuan nodded.
At this time, the woman next to Park Chanyeol looked at Chi Jingyuan enthusiastically, and took the initiative to say hello to Chi Jingyuan with a smile: "Yuan xi, I have always wanted to meet you. I am Jin Yajing, Aniha Sai
Yo."
Jin Yajing looks to be in her twenties, but the bright makeup on her face is not accurate. She has exquisite facial features and a tall figure. The overall look is quite eye-catching, and she has the style of an urban fashion beauty.
"Neanihasay, nice to meet you." Chi Jingyuan also nodded and saluted, then looked at Park Chanyeol and asked with his eyes: "Brother, this is..."
"..." Park Chanyeol didn't say anything, but he raised his eyebrows at him with his eyes bent, and his meaning was already very clear.
It seems that Jin Yajing is the makeup artist that Oh Sehun said that Park Chanyeol is dating. Although she may be a little older than them, she is indeed pretty and has a good temperament.
I just didn't expect that Park Chanyeol would be able to come out for a date during his lunch break. He really took the time... Of course, Chi Jingyuan himself was not qualified to say that he was the one.
Chi Jingyuan and Jin Yajing exchanged polite greetings. Park Chanye saw Zhou Ziyu next to him who was very embarrassed and didn't know what to say. He looked at Chi Jingyuan with narrow eyes and said in a strange tone: "This is yours, Jingyuan..."
"
The final tone is deliberately elongated, and the playful intention is obvious.
"Ah Ni, he is a good friend of mine, and he is now a trainee."
Zhou Ziyu pursed her lips and smiled a little embarrassed, Chi Jingyuan shook his head and explained.
"Anihasay, I'm Zhou Ziyu." She looked a little nervous and saluted to say hello.
"Aniha Saiyo...trainee? From our company?"
"No, I'm from JYP."
When they heard that they were friends of Chi Jingyuan, Park Chanyeol and Park Chanyeol returned the favor politely and took the initiative to chat with Zhou Ziyu for a few words. Jin Yajing also kept praising her for her fluttering, which made Zhou Ziyu look bad.
Even if you are shy, it will be difficult to say anything.
This little girl is indeed still too young, a little green and naive.
"Then let's go first..." After chatting for a while, Park Chanyeol took the initiative to wave goodbye. When they passed each other, he winked at Chi Jingyuan and secretly gave a thumbs up.
Looking at the two people leaving, Chi Jingyuan knew that this brother might have misunderstood something.
But it doesn’t matter anymore.
"Okay, let's go now. You've got your tickets. If you lose them, I won't reissue them."
Turning his head, Chi Jingyuan took a breath and said goodbye to Zhou Ziyu.
"Got it." Zhou Ziyu nodded, glanced at him, and then looked at the ground.
"By the way, I remember you said before that there were a few male trainees who have been courting you? What's the situation now? Why didn't you let them help you get a ticket this time?"
Chi Jingyuan thought of something and asked curiously before leaving.
The life of a trainee is really exciting.
"You still remember...don't tell me, they are really childish."
"You are a little girl and you still call others naive...forget it, let's go."
"Bye then."
…………
"say waht"
"say wo wo"
"Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely."
It has been less than a week since their comeback. At this time, in SM's practice room, several members of the EXO-K team danced the entire "dope" stage seriously.
The members all have their own name tags on them. For example, Chi Kyung-won has a sign with the Korean word 'Yuan' hanging in front of him at this time, and the other members are the same.
All procedures were rehearsed according to the formal performance stage, and there were professional VJs from the company who followed and filmed the whole process.
The purpose of shooting this is to hand it over to the production team of the TV station's singing program. The director and VJ of the production team will set up the camera position according to the sent image, and when recording the song, they will also follow the process in the image.
This is very necessary, because without this thing, the production team of the singing program will not know how your stage shots are designed, what special arrangements are there, when to shoot the C position, when to cut to a close-up, etc.
At this moment, Qi Wu's eyes darkened.
Then people can only shoot casually based on their own experience and preferences...
Basically, in order to achieve the expected stage shot effect, each group of idols will shoot this image and submit it to the TV station when they return to sing. EXO has filmed it for their previous "Wolf" and "Roar".
The purpose of wearing name tags is to recognize people, so that the PD and VJ of the program team can recognize who is who in the video as quickly as possible. After all, there are so many groups of idols participating in each episode, and it is normal for some faces to be unfamiliar.
Although they are industry insiders, in fact many TV station staff do not know much about idols and only know some popular artists.
During the rehearsals of some large-scale parties, the artists will all wear name tags to make it easier for people to know who they are.
However, there are some very famous idols with high nationality who no longer need to wear name tags to tell others about their identity, such as Girls' Generation.
During the Gayo Daejeon at the end of last year, Chi Jingyuan remembered clearly that several groups of artists came on stage to rehearse together. All of them, including EXO, wore name tags with their names on them to let the director recognize them. Only a few girls from SNSD wore loose private clothes.
I collapsed and stood forward, with nothing on me.
But everyone knows them.
After a complete performance on the official stage, several members of the K team were a little tired.
But there was no time to rest now, so they immediately followed the staff and watched the process video they had just taken.
Although there is only one stage for the prelude, it also plays the role of debut and preemption, and the overall effect is still very important. Moreover, the members of the stage design this time have also seen it, and they are all very satisfied, and they are looking forward to what will happen after the stage show.
Effect.
To be honest, when the members discussed privately after the comeback plan was finalized, some people really felt that the song "dope" had too few stages and felt a bit buried.
Like Chi Jingyuan, they also like the concept and style of this song.
"The effect is very good. This is the version of Team K. I will hand it over to Mnet later."
After watching it twice and discussing it with the company's stage planning teacher, Li Chenghuan clapped his hands and said: "The children quickly change their clothes and get ready. We will go to the studio to shoot the VCR immediately. They are already waiting there."
.”
"Gui, I got it."
The few people who had just drank water quickly responded, took off their name tags, changed their clothes, went downstairs, got into the nanny car, and rushed to the shooting location.
As soon as Chi Jingyuan arrived at the studio, he saw an acquaintance.
"Senior Anihasaya..." As soon as we entered, we met Kang Seulgi who had been waiting for a long time. After seeing them, we quickly stood up and bowed with a smile. Every move was very standard.
Except for Ji Kyung-won and Oh Se-hun, the other EXO members basically know Kang Seul-gi, a trainee who has been practicing for almost seven years, but some of them cannot be said to be very familiar with her.
The members walking in front nodded in return, while Chi Kyung-won and Oh Se-hun at the back looked at her in surprise: "Seulgi, are you here to shoot our concert VCR?"
"Guess." Looking at them, Jiang Seqi smiled brightly.
They needed to shoot several VCRs for this concert, and Kang Seulgi participated in one of them, but the camera time was very small, only about 5 seconds.
But again, any opportunity to show your face before debut is very important and precious to trainees.
Except for the royal family who have no shortage of resources at all.
After that, the members went to put on makeup and change clothes in batches. Ji Kyung-won, who was at the back of the line, took Jiang Seulqi and sat on the stool next to him and started chatting. Oh Se-hun, Do Kyung-soo, who were also at the back of the line, sat next to them.
Join in the fun together.
"…………"
"There are more than a dozen people in the candidate group, and they will be evaluated every week. After a while, some people will be eliminated, and there may be new ones coming in."
"The teachers are very strict, and you will be severely punished if you make a mistake, but these are secondary. It really doesn't matter compared to being eliminated and unable to debut. I have been scolded many times.
"
"I have to practice for more than ten hours every day, from morning to night. Even if it is early in the morning, no one is willing to leave, for fear that they will be eliminated if they make slow progress."
"But everyone really doesn't care about this. Now I have no other thoughts except practicing hard for my debut..."
Jiang Seulqi and Ji Kyungwon kept pouring out their bitterness and talked about some things that happened after joining SM's new girl group project recently. It can be seen that she has been working really hard. Her skin is a bit dry and her complexion is average. It is obvious that she has been working hard recently.
The rest was not very good.
But she was really energetic. Even though she looked tired, her eyes were shining brightly and her whole body was full of motivation, as if nothing could stop her from continuing to work hard.
Even though he was complaining, he was not complaining, but there was obvious expectation and longing in his tone.
Chi Jingyuan sat next to him and chimed in from time to time.
He felt that the energy of his relative could influence people very much.
"It is indeed very hard. It was the same when we were in the debut group. We practiced hard every day for fear of being eliminated."
Wu Sehun sighed with emotion, and the scene flashed before his eyes, as if he had returned to the time when EXO was planning their debut more than two years ago. They were exactly the same as Kang Seulgi now.
"Yes, we all stayed in the practice room at that time, competing to see who could leave later." Do Kyungsoo also added: "I couldn't sleep every day at that time. After I went to bed, I looked at the bed board above me.
I have been in a daze for a long time, and I can’t even imagine what my expression would be like if I were eliminated.”
Entertainment companies like to use this elimination method when selecting debut groups. They first recruit a group of people to form a reserve group, and then after a long period of practice and screening, they constantly pass out some people, and finally only the remaining ones are
Qualified to debut.
From Girls' Generation, to EXO, to this year's new girl groups, this has always been the routine.
This method can stimulate the potential of trainees to the greatest extent, allowing them to practice hard to improve their strength and reach the standards for debut. At the same time, the fear generated under high pressure can also be more easily managed by the company.
But it's also really cruel.
Chi Jingyuan was a little bit reluctant to talk about this topic. As an airborne soldier, he was really not suitable to discuss this issue.
After listening for a while, after the feeling of reminiscing among the others subsided a little, he asked with concern: "How are Seung Wan and Joo Hyun Xi doing lately?"
"Sheng Wan has been really excited lately. She was selected for her singing skills, but her dancing ability has always been a bit lagging behind. Recently, she was severely punished by the teacher several times, and she secretly cried a few times. Now she can hardly stop practicing.
It’s inside the room.”
Jiang Seulqi shook her head, feeling a little sorry for her relative. She pursed her lips and then talked about Bae Zhuhyun:
"The same goes for Joo Hyun Unnie. Her appearance evaluation is the best, but in other evaluations of strength, she is only average. Moreover, she is the oldest among all the races in the preliminary group. She has always been under great pressure.
Frequent insomnia.”
The image of Jiang Seulqi and the others' efforts seemed to appear in his mind. Chi Jingyuan was silent for a while and sighed slowly:
